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– Bangladesh's ICT Act paved the way for hundreds of lawsuits over online speech (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News July 21, 2017

Over the past four months in Bangladesh, more than twenty journalists have been sued under the country's 2013 Information and Communication Technology Act.
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